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...great. He returned to Cambridge, Mass., to take on a job as Harvard's assistant dean of freshmen. After a wartime stint as an Army education officer, he was suddenly plucked out of Harvard's administration by President Conant to become, at 37, dean of the dormant School of Education Trade School to Liberal Arts. He went to work to eliminate the trade-school atmosphere, put real scholars from science and the humanities on the education faculty. To earn Harvard's pioneering Master of Arts in Teaching, students now get a rich dose of liberal learning, plus...
...eight hours at a stretch; flight crew training standards were minimal. In addition, non-sked business practices were sometimes downright dubious. President Airlines, which operated a DC-6B that crashed last year off Shannon, killing 83 passengers, got into the business by buying the air carrier certificate of a dormant nonsked...
...Tristan islanders were hustled off their tiny island in the South Atlantic last October when a long-dormant volcano poured a river of molten rock toward their thatch-roofed houses. In traveling 6,500 miles to safety in England, they moved nearly a hundred years forward in time. At home, they had lived on a fish-and-potato diet, carded and spun wool by the light of oil lamps, ridden in bullock carts. In their new cottages near the British port of Southampton, they encountered for the first time the 20th century wonders of electric light, store clothes, supermarkets, frozen...
Following the Harvard model, President Bunting appointed a Master for each of the Houses in January. During the spring the Masters in their turn selected eight or ten Faculty Associates to aid them in stimulating the students' intellects, popularly supposed to lie dormant from the moment the 'Cliffie left the Harvard Yard after classes till that when she returned next morning...
...family and official duty, but has handled both with verve, resolve and good taste. During nearly 17 months in the White House, she has gone far toward recreating and refurbishing the serene, classically elegant residence that Jefferson intended it to be. She has helped, too, to awaken the sometimes dormant American respect for excellence, be it in food or poetry, décor or dance...